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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. and all their necessaries were supplied by Kalpa trees. The idea of Yugaliks is, peculiar to the Jains, as we have not come across any description of Yugaliks in any other work of other religionists. Gradually with the degenerating tendency of of the time, the. Ralpa trees failed in yielding up the desires of mankind and the world became full of miseries so much so, that to alleviate this, Adinath introduced reforms in everything, spiritual or worldly. After his nirvan, twentyone Tirthankars followed before Parshwanath, the twenty-third, during which period many saints and heroes flourished. Detailed accounts of these heroes are lost to us. But we come across only with some important events of their lives and of the times abounding with legends and mythis. They were all great personages and yet for the above reasons, their accounts throw in little light from the historic point of view.
Parshwanath was born in 877 B. C. and reached moksha in the hundredth year of his age in 777 B. C. There is a chronological list showing heads of the Church, known as
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